Dear Woman- I wish every family did have love like that. Although maybe "eternal" is a hard concept for me. I'll go with "forever and ever," though.You have a beautiful family. And here's love from mine to yours...

We're currently on vacation visiting family in Montgomery (from Minnesota), and this week we ate at our first Waffle House (I had no idea how ubiquitous they are down here!). Our daughter ranks it just below IHOP for best restaurant ever.

I love that: unconditional, sacrificial, eternal. Happy Easter to you and your beautiful family. And just the sight of the Waffle House sign made my mouth water. I so miss grits out here on the west coast! With butter pats and lots of salt and pepper.

Welcome to Atlanta.

"Becoming is better than being." - Carol Dweck

Who me? I'm just glad to be here.

Honestly? I write this blog to share the human aspects of medicine + teaching + work/life balance with others and myself -- and to honor the public hospital and her patients--but never at the expense of patient privacy or dignity.
Thanks for stopping by! :)

What's the point?

"One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends of how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give."

~ James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

"Do it for the story." ~ Antoinette Nguyen, MD, MPH

Details, names, time frames, etc. are always changed to protect anonymity. This may or may not be an amalgamation of true,quasi-true, or completely fictional events. But the lessons? They are always real and never, ever fictional. Got that?